Dr. Bately Scott Parkin (1892/07/16-1950/07/16)

Abstract:

On 15 October 1928 he was appointed Research Officer at Onderstepoort and later Professor of Medicine at the Veterinary Faculty at the Institute. He will best be remembered for his transmission work on dourine in equines. Dourine is a sexually-transmitted disease of equines caused by Trypanosomia equiperdum. It remains an important disease in Southern Africa, North Africa, Russia, Middle East and certain other countries.

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Black/white photo. Original document size: (w)4.99 x (h)7 cm. Original scanned size: 154 kb JPEG, 600 dpi. Final web-ready size: 19.87 kb. Estimate download time: 8 sec. @ 28.8 kbps. Original TIFF file housed at the Dept. Veterinary Tropical Diseases, University of Pretoria. Metadata assigned by Prof. R.C. Tustin, Professor Emeritus: DVTD. His academic and professional experience includes: veterinarian for 54 years,
senior lecturer at UP for 7 years, head of Department at UP for 17 years and Veterinary Council for 3 years.